Shay Given

[CJ]

Downing passed his medical with a broken foot! 

[Toronto Villa]

you have to wonder whether the club will just wait until tomorrow to announce Given with the home kit launch.

[Maradona10]

It'll be announced today, Villa usually do things like this after 5pm and then they'll parade him tomorrow at kit launch.

[Mazrim]

My bet is about 6 or 7 O'clock this evening. Tomorrow will all be about the new chess boa.. I mean, kit.

[Maradona10]

I would even bet on Given had his first training session today.

[Maradona10]

Going to happen today according to what Mat Kendrick is being told.

[Toronto Villa]

good. He'll be a very welcome addition.

[Simon Ward]

Why do we take so long about these things, particularly when the guy wants to come to us?

Also how come we can seemingly only work on one transfer deal at a time?

[olofmilosevic]

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you don't know this! we've always operated fairly secretively.

[Whiney MacWhineface]

Getting injured is a risk for any player whether he has a history or not. Yes Given had a serious injury in 2010, we don't know if the 2011 injury was the same as the first. Also, he hasn't been injured in training since so maybe it's been fixed or at least in much better shape. I think the club will put him through a serious check up before saying yes.

Of course they will, and he may never have as much as a twinge in either shoulder again, in which case we'll have ourselves a bargain. On the other hand he damaged the other shouder the second time so it's a risk - especially with Guzan as the option.

[cdbearsfan]

Have we got Blues' goalkeeping coach? If so he worked wonders with Hart and Foster and I reckon he could improve Guzan too. His shot-stopping is very good but he is suspect when the opposition (usually Blackburn as he only plays cup games) put big buggers against him. He's still young enough to improve though.

[Risso]

Have we got Blues' goalkeeping coach? If so he worked wonders with Hart and Foster and I reckon he could improve Guzan too. His shot-stopping is very good but he is suspect when the opposition (usually Blackburn as he only plays cup games) put big buggers against him. He's still young enough to improve though.

He stayed there didn't he?  Ours is still Gonzalez according to the OS.

[cdbearsfan]

Not sure to be honest. Hopefully the OS is just out of date.

[VillaAlways]

Weren't people saying he was the only decent coach from Blues and we didn't get him

[Damo70]

Dave Watson isn't it? Played for Barnsley and had to quit early in his career through injury. He's still at Blues and I haven't heard any talk that that's going to change. The other Watson (Andy) has left Blues as far as I know but i don't think he's coming either. The word is he got the hump with AM because he wasn't tipped off that he was quitting and heard it like everyone else through the press.